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Colonialisation and Decolonialisation

The fight for independence and self government in the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Monument to the Spanish Civil War

Laurentino Saenz de Baruaga is a Benedictine monk who tends the Valle de los Caidos

• 4 mins

The UN's Dag Hammarskjold

Brian Urquhart remembers Dag Hammarskjold who helped shape the United Nations.

• 4 mins

New Zealand's Aviation Pioneer

Jean Batten flew solo from Britain to New Zealand in 1936

• 3 mins

Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington

Jan Scruggs describes how it has helped the US to recover from the trauma of Vietnam

• 4 mins

Israel's Yad Vashem

Ben Helscott lost both parents in the Holocaust. He describes what Israel's memorial means

• 4 mins

Monuments and Memorials

Commemorating the people and events that marked the 20th Century

• 28 mins

Photo-journalist for Picture Post Magazine

Grace Robertson travelled around Europe with her camera after World War II

• 4 mins

Photographing Sharpeville

Ian Berry's pictures are a graphic record of the massacre of demonstrators in South Africa

• 4 mins

How Fridges Have Changed Lives

Zvikomborero Mlambo used to spend hours preserving food: drying, smoking and salting

• 3 mins

Edison's Industrial Research Laboratory

Menlo Park had a team of researchers who worked on research and development

• 3 mins

The Invention of Polythene

Polythene was a vital ingredient in the development of radar in World War II

• 4 mins

The Invention of Nylon

Norman Miles took part in an early experiment to test the durability of the new fibre

• 4 mins

Che Guevara

Richard Gott was there when the security forces showed Guevara's body to the press

• 4 mins

The Falsification of Photographs in the USSR

How Stalin encouraged the alteration of photographs to remove people such as Trotsky

• 3 mins

Looking through a Family Album

Dorothy Childs on her family photos that captured key moments of the 20th Century

• 4 mins

Making Clothes in Gambia

Dressmaker Margery Liwali talks about one of Gambia's most popular professions

• 4 mins

Moving from Venezuela's Rainforest

Indigenous Venezuelan Hilda Samson worries about her community losing their culture

• 4 mins

Traditional Native American Storyteller

Liz Campbell tells the story of Poia - how the Blackfeet people got the sun dance

• 4 mins

The Sami People of Northern Europe

Pekka Aikio is a member of a group that have traditionally lived by herding reindeer

• 4 mins

Australia's Stolen Generation

Cecil Dickson was taken away from his parents when he was just four years old

• 4 mins

The Hadza People of Tanzania

Simon Charles is part of a community who still lives by hunting and gathering

• 4 mins

Clothes

The mini skirt, the blackshirt, the headscarf, Gambian dressmaking and a bride-to-be

• 28 mins

Before Washing Machines - Wash Day

Joanna Roberts remembers the endless hours that women spent doing the weekly laundry

• 4 mins

Inheritors

The 20th Century through the eyes of the world's indigenous people

• 28 mins

Language

Translators, adopting English, storytellers and endangered languages

• 28 mins

Giving Birth in Zanzibar

Mahfoudha Alley Hamid remembers in a potent combination of pain and pleasure

• 3 mins

Still Lives - omnibus edition

Photojournalism, altering photos in Soviet times and a family photo album

• 28 mins

Live Aid

Bob Geldof organised Live Aid concert to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia

• 4 mins

Women Ordained in the Anglican Church

Angela Berners Wilson was one of the first to be ordained in the Church of England

• 4 mins